Full-On Pluto

While I'm waiting for a press conference on Pluto in a couple of hours (18:00 UTC), I thought I'd show you this beautiful image of Pluto's face released by NASA this morning. It's a composite of high-resolution data from the black-and-white (well, grayscale) LORRI camera combined with color data from the Ralph camera. The colors have been enhanced to bring out overall patterns and regional differences. The images were taken on July 14, when New Horizons was 450,000 kilometers from Pluto--not muc...